E3 2009: Twitter and Facebook coming to XBox Live
Well it was bound to happen. Apparently this was just confirmed from IGN’s live blog of the 2009 E3 video game conference that coming this fall you will be able to access Twitter posts and Facebook from your XBox Live dashboard.
Taken from the IGN Live Blog:
(11:44:19 AM): Announcing Live Party so that your avatars will sit around a virtual TV and watch it. Looks like a lame version of Mystery Science Theatre. Announcing a partnership with Facebook. Felicia Day on stage from The Guild.
(11:45:35 AM): Season 3 of the guild is coming this fall… Showing off Facebook on Xbox 360. Same kind of windowed browser as the rest of the Xbox interface. Can use friend linker, that shows XBL and FB friends in the same list.
(11:46:30 AM): Can view photos from yourself and your friends off your Xbox. Can view them in slide show mode. In fullscreen on Xbox. Can also browse status updates on your Xbox.
(11:47:34 AM): Facebook Connect is on there as well, which lets you posts screens and texts in real time. Will work for the new Tiger Woods PGA Tour. In addition to Facebook, Twitter will also be available through XBL.
(11:48:28 AM): Looks like you can view other people’s Twitter posts, and you can post from Twitter right from your Xbox. Updates instantly. Twitter and Facebook will be coming to Xbox Live this fall.
This should make for a very interesting experience. Considering Microsoft , Google and Yahoo are all trying to buy Twitter in hopes of gaining the title of “the best search engine” and the release of Bing.com being launched today; look’s like Microsoft is really making a huge step forward in trying to gain control of the market again.
Twitter will soon have 10’s of millions of users, plus the millions of people on Facebook combined with the ability to merge these social sites to their XBox Live account, this may lead to a new rise in popularity with Microsoft’s search presence.
